Random thing you love right now that doesn't deserve its own thread

PaladinTom wrote:

Someone made a website that's like Netflix, but with all the fake movies and tv shows from movies and tv shows.

https://nestflix.fun/

It’s brilliant.

Honestly, this is all I need from a streaming service. Who has time to actually watch the shows.

Speaking with my psychologist and realizing the source of my anxiety is being perceived as incompetent, then throwing myself into things with the acknowledgment that I'm ALLOWED to be bad at something - that it's the first step of getting good at something. Often, nobody even cares.

It's such an obvious thing and it took me 30 years to realise. It's not easy changing old mindsets, but it's been refreshing. I'm really happy I've started trying making stuff for YouTube, because I was always paralyzed by having to be perfect before. Now I'm trying to just do what I can and enjoy the process of learning. I'm not perfect right now, but that's the whole point!

So points for applying therapy to IRL I guess. Go me.

I watched a puppy mimic a bunny he was playing with by hopping around like the bunny. I can't un see it and never want to.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

I watched a puppy mimic a bunny he was playing with by hopping around like the bunny. I can't un see it and never want to.

In your final days, when your grandchildren and great grandchildren wonder why you suddenly start giggling, we'll know.

People are getting into the idea of Keannu Reeves and Brandon Frasier being in a movie together. My idea was them being morgue workers dealing with the movie Reservoir Dogs victims.

"I know, she was supposed to meet me at the restaurant and... Jesus, where did this guy's ear go?"

"Hey, isn't this Bobby? I thought he was going straight after that whole fiasco down in Toluca Lake?"

"Man this is a mess. By the way, are you still up for the Wilson-Coolidge match? I've got some sweet inside odds on a Coolidge win."

I'd watch it.

Just finished copy edits on my novel, the first one I think is actually good enough to go out to agents. Very, very excited.

Now there’s just the not-insignificant logistical and marketing challenge of writing and personalising dozens of query letters and making sure I adhere to all the submission guidelines, all of which are very slightly different. Fun!

Awesome! Congrats, Happy Dave!

I may have posted this before and I don't care. It's from 2011 or something so the quality is a bit sh*t but hats off to the person that recorded this.

My 11 week old yellow Labrador's favorite seat in the house is my 11 year old yellow Labrador.

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Oh. My. God.

This is the best thing to wake up to. Put a big 'ol smile on my face this morning!

While I enjoy watching speedruns, I don't' necessarily keep up to date with the newest trends or such. But this came up in the algorithm. A twitch streamer named boba_witch who is playing Metal Gear Solid for the FIRST TIME accidentally discovered a repeatable glitch that almost completely ignores the stairway running and helicopter fight, shaving 2:30 minutes off the world record time. And when she did, she sang a little song about it because she hated the stairway section. And the MGS speedrunning community is losing their minds.

LANGUAGE WARNING

I gave up on the game forever because of the stairway section.

That is legit one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen. Wonder how many subs she has now?

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Found a classic Dell keyboard new-in-box at work today. Swapped it out with the stupid chicklet style keyboard I have been using for a while. Not my favorite of Dell's older keyboards but an improvement.

Rykin wrote:

Found a classic Dell keyboard new-in-box at work today. Swapped it out with the stupid chicklet style keyboard I have been using for a while. Not my favorite of Dell's older keyboards but an improvement.

Just brought one of those home after cleaning out my office space last week. I always liked that style.

I love keyboards with separate media keys. And look at that sexy volume knob!

PaladinTom wrote:

I love keyboards with separate media keys. And look at that sexy volume knob!

That volume knob would have been handy a month or two ago when the volume thing in the system tray was refusing to work. Eventually got it back to working but it was an annoying few weeks of not being able to easily adjust the volume.

Turned 41 this morning. Wife and kids surprised me with some nice gifts, not least of which is a nice kayaking life vest that i had been eying as i am starting river training.

Happy birthday, Sally!

So it turns out there are these newfangled kind of headphones that don't go in your ears, they press against you directly in front of your ears and the bone conducts the sound.

They're a little pricier than the clip-on over-ear headphones I'm used to, and the sound quality is a little tinny with virtually no bass.

But because they don't block the ear at all, I don't have to take them off or even mute them to hold a conversation. I can hear both the music (they're even better for podcasts, since the sound quality is less of an issue) and the sound of my surroundings equally well.

I love them.

hbi2k wrote:

So it turns out there are these newfangled kind of headphones that don't go in your ears, they press against you directly in front of your ears and the bone conducts the sound.

They're a little pricier than the clip-on over-ear headphones I'm used to, and the sound quality is a little tinny with virtually no bass.

But because they don't block the ear at all, I don't have to take them off or even mute them to hold a conversation. I can hear both the music (they're even better for podcasts, since the sound quality is less of an issue) and the sound of my surroundings equally well.

I love them.

The Bone Fone 2.0!
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hbi2k wrote:

So it turns out there are these newfangled kind of headphones that don't go in your ears, they press against you directly in front of your ears and the bone conducts the sound.

They're a little pricier than the clip-on over-ear headphones I'm used to, and the sound quality is a little tinny with virtually no bass.

But because they don't block the ear at all, I don't have to take them off or even mute them to hold a conversation. I can hear both the music (they're even better for podcasts, since the sound quality is less of an issue) and the sound of my surroundings equally well.

I love them.

I was trying out my uncle's pair this week and am really impressed. I will probably get a pair soonish.
I'm curious if they would be good or a distraction for conf calls.

Three-way tug-of-war.

The older dog always makes such growly-sounding grunts when playing tug-of-war, and so the puppy is joining in with his own grunts:

Yeah. My little poodle-mix makes authentic battle sounds when we play tug’o’war too. Since he has a soft mouth sometimes we play tug’o’war with my fingers. Guests who don’t know him well think he’s really attacking me, but then he stops and licks my hand. Lots of fun.

Rykin wrote:
PaladinTom wrote:

I love keyboards with separate media keys. And look at that sexy volume knob!

That volume knob would have been handy a month or two ago when the volume thing in the system tray was refusing to work. Eventually got it back to working but it was an annoying few weeks of not being able to easily adjust the volume.

There was a bug in Windows 10. After plugging or unplugging headphones volume keys would not work. The overlay would show it going up or down but if you clicked on system tray it would still be unchanged.

Voice Meeter helps with that stuff, Stele.

In 2016 I saw this viral Triple Spiral video, and subscribed and followed Hevish5 (Lilly Hevish).

I enjoyed this video and her channel so much that I actually have a poster of the Triple Spiral thumbnail hanging in my area at work.

Now she's got a documentary about her life premiering soon on Discovery+ (which is great timing for me as I recently subscribed to watch old Mythbuster episodes). I'm looking forward to seeing this. It's amazing how much she has accomplished doing this one very unique thing that she loves to do.

Good stuff, Tscott.

This was almost a Random Thing You Loathe Right Now post....my computer began shutting down randomly a couple weeks ago, no error messages or anything, and I eventually realized the CPU was overheating. I'd never had that problem before, since it's a liquid-cooled system. Corsair Link showed pump activity as normal, it's not dusty, and there's plenty of airflow in the case. So, I figured an easy thing to try would be replacing the old thermal paste, which I did this afternoon. It was easy enough to do, but when I rebooted I got the F.F. motherboard code of doom. Pulled it apart again suspecting what had happened, and sure enough I had bent some of the CPU pins like a dumbass.

But, in spite of my crappy eyesight that now requires trifocals and my less-steady-every-year hands, I was able to use a razor blade to straighten them all out! Bootup identified it as a new CPU, had me go through the initial BIOS setup, and I'm back in business. Whew! It's idling at about 85F now, much better than before.